A UK developer who goes by Tones has created a Flock-specific extension that puts Meebo, and therefore Yahoo, AIM, Gtalk and MSN IM, directly into a sidebar in the Flock browser (the extension also works for Firefox).

It is a question of time before the Wikipedia self-destructs and implodes. It poses such low barriers to entry (anyone can edit any number of its articles) that it is already attracting masses of teenagers as “contributors” and “editors”, not to mention the less savory flotsam and jetsam of cyber-life. People who are regularly excluded or at least moderated in every other Internet community are welcomed, no questions asked, by this wannabe self-styled “encyclopedia”.

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I’m not sure I care that much about finding other sick individuals who have the same tastes as me, and the whole privacy thing gives me the creeps. Yes you can use an alias but won’t you be found out eventually? And then there’s the P.J. Rourke problem always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. Maybe I’m just being grumpy and the site is incredibly popular, so perhaps LibraryThing deserves a second look.

Because of this intimacy, LibraryThing can also connect likeminded readers — a sort of MySpace for bookworms. But the object is always to find more books, not to kindle online relationships or cliques. “It’s not about who you connect with as friends, it’s about who you connect with through books,” Mr. Spalding explains.